For Women Scotland

Hate Crime Bill

  • The Status of Women In Scotland – Hate Crime and Public Order Act

    UN Women invited submissions to the Commission on the Status of Women with information relating to alleged violations of human rights that affect the status of women in any...

  • Letter to the Chair of the Misogyny Working Group

    We sent the following email to Baroness Kennedy, the Chair of the Misogyny and Criminal Justice in Scotland Working Group on 18th March 2021: Dear Baroness Kennedy, We are...

  • Virtual Demo

    Last year for International Women’s Day we held a fantastic demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Lockdown restrictions prevent us from doing similar this year, but we really wanted to get...

  • Hate Crime Bill – Stage 3 Briefing

    The following was sent to all MSPs on 7th March 2021. It can also be downloaded as a pdf here. Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) BillBriefing for Stage...

  • Hate Crime Bill – email MSPs

    The Hate Crime Bill reaches the final stage in its passage through Parliament next Wednesday 10th March, when MSPs consider the final amendments and vote on whether the Bill...

  • Hate Crime Bill – submission on FoE amendments

    The Justice Committee issued an emergency Call for Views on the options proposed for Freedom of Expression amendments to the Hate Crime Bill. Our submission is as follows, and...

  • Sex and the Hate Crime Bill

    Taken from our Twitter thread. We continue to be bemused by the determination of some in the Scottish Government and funded organisation to dismiss and undermine important work on...

  • FWS Statement on Justice Committee meeting today

    We were disturbed, but sadly unsurprised, that, once again, the Committee passed-up the chance to add sex to the Hate Crime Bill while failing to progress on free speech...

  • History of Women and Hate Crime Law

    A gender aggravator to crimes was first mooted in the Draft Criminal Code for Scotland some seventeen years ago. Later the same year Robin Harper MSP lodged an amendment...

  • Women and the Hate Crime Bill: Nothing about us without us

    On Tuesday 24th November For Women Scotland will give evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Committee on the controversial Hate Crime and Public Order Bill. In our written submission,...